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The First Benchmarks Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

Phoronix: The First Benchmarks Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

The first beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 was made available yesterday morning. RHEL 6.0 is set to offer many virtualization enhancements, power management improvements, new security features, many package updates, and even some reported performance enhancements. With Red Hat mentioning this major upgrade to their enterprise operating system carrying "performance enhancements", these claims have now been tested using the Phoronix Test Suite within our labs. There are some improvements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 to note, but also some losses.

Thanks for the review. But when the review articles always claim something like "the performance loss of the new distro is due to the EXT4 vs EXT3 file system", could you add the same test on the same distro with EXT3 then? There might be an article to compare different file systems, but putting the same test/distro with different FS would be much clear and better than words.
My $0.02.

Thanks for the review. But when the review articles always claim something like "the performance loss of the new distro is due to the EXT4 vs EXT3 file system", could you add the same test on the same distro with EXT3 then? There might be an article to compare different file systems, but putting the same test/distro with different FS would be much clear and better than words.
My $0.02.

I know this doesn't respond to your request for addition of multiple FS in the cross-distribution reviews, but it should give you an idea about the relative performance of current filesystems:

Why is it that whenever Phoronix sees a massive performance regression, they immediately speculate on what is causing it rather than redoing the benchmarks with their speculated cause fixed so people can see whether or not Phoronix's speculation is the case?

The regressions in Apache Bench merit adding benchmarks for the RHEL 6.0 and Fedora where the file systems are ext4 with nobarrier and ext3 with/without nobarrier so we can see to what extent things are being affected by changes in the file systems and to what extent things are helped/harmed by attempting to undo them. Despite that, Phoronix never does this.

- When comparing performance with other filesystems, remember that
ext3/4 by default offers higher data integrity guarantees than most. So
when comparing with a metadata-only journalling filesystem, use `mount -o
data=writeback'. And you might as well use `mount -o nobh' too along
with it. Making the journal larger than the mke2fs default often helps